my grandson has alas been at it since three. He is 13. They have curfews. I don't know how my daughter and son in law deal with all the travel. They have three jobs and drinking and partying does not happen. My daughter brings work with her as she has to work.. Meanwhile SIL is usually recovering from 90 hour work weeks as a paramedic supervisor in CT or actually at work..
The oldest just sprouted from 5'4" to 5'10" in about six months. He's technically off season and playing lacrosse which he likes ( Grandma its legal to whack people in the legs with your stick"!) but still hockey two times a week. He is 140 lbs of muscle and aspires to be a wingman in the NHL.
I have to remind him ( his mother does too) that NHL is not forever and there will be life after that to be ready for.
The kids in our hockey program are not allowed to have grades below B. Anything below B. Not one C. I think school should come first too. He is in an academic school system where the college entrance rate is 96 percent or so. And not just any college.
We have met many Canadian hockey parents and they sure are more polite than some of their American parent brethren; who still have not learned that if they engage in obnoxious sideline coaching they and kids will be ejected. One team last year endured 18 hours on a bus from Nova Scotia to New Hampshire in the dead of winter during a storm and the bus heater broke down. No wonder they lost their first game.. they were exhausted. They did well in future games but really six games in three days is really barbaric.
My grandson has missed nine days of school, the max allowed. Were travel times shorter than four hours things would be different but its insane.. Games are never local. What gets me is they come here to play ( 6 hours) a team that is ( 15 minutes) near them at home.
O my we are drifting . You Canadians started it.
BTW the grandkids want to go back to Toronto this summer to the Hockey Hall of Fame. They were there a whole day last summer and their parents were bored after a couple of hours. Not so the kids.
The oldest just sprouted from 5'4" to 5'10" in about six months. He's technically off season and playing lacrosse which he likes ( Grandma its legal to whack people in the legs with your stick"!) but still hockey two times a week. He is 140 lbs of muscle and aspires to be a wingman in the NHL.
I have to remind him ( his mother does too) that NHL is not forever and there will be life after that to be ready for.
The kids in our hockey program are not allowed to have grades below B. Anything below B. Not one C. I think school should come first too. He is in an academic school system where the college entrance rate is 96 percent or so. And not just any college.
We have met many Canadian hockey parents and they sure are more polite than some of their American parent brethren; who still have not learned that if they engage in obnoxious sideline coaching they and kids will be ejected. One team last year endured 18 hours on a bus from Nova Scotia to New Hampshire in the dead of winter during a storm and the bus heater broke down. No wonder they lost their first game.. they were exhausted. They did well in future games but really six games in three days is really barbaric.
My grandson has missed nine days of school, the max allowed. Were travel times shorter than four hours things would be different but its insane.. Games are never local. What gets me is they come here to play ( 6 hours) a team that is ( 15 minutes) near them at home.
O my we are drifting . You Canadians started it.
BTW the grandkids want to go back to Toronto this summer to the Hockey Hall of Fame. They were there a whole day last summer and their parents were bored after a couple of hours. Not so the kids.
